Immediately after Sen. John McCain’s family announced his death from brain cancer at age 81 on Saturday, tributes began to pour out publicly from politicians across the ideological spectrum. President Barack Obama, who defeated McCain in the 2008 race for the White House, said in a statement that although the one-time adversaries were “members of different generations, came from completely different backgrounds, and competed at the highest levels of politics,” they shared “a fidelity to something higher.” Meanwhile, President Trump—who infamously questioned McCain’s war heroism early in the 2016 presidential contest—offered his “deepest sympathies and respect” to McCain’s family.
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